Image series 46 / 2015: Outsider Art

Out is In

8 November 2015
|
By: Bettina Pfleging

They belong to the so-called “Outsider Art”, to the “naive art”. They are outsider of classical modernism. Just as Séraphine Louis and her intensive floral still life, which bloom and simultaneously bear fruits, or André Bauchant and his combinations of different types of images, or Camille Bombois with landscapes, female nudes, and carnival fair scenes. Often they are simply forgotten, not so Henri Rousseau and his tangled jungle landscapes in large sizes.
What makes up good art, which remains, and how are artists to become a classic? The exhibition brings the unfamiliar with familiar works by Paul Gauguin, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emil Nolde or Pablo Picasso together to enhance the look.